Car construction.



F. W. C. SCHNIEWIND.

GAR CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7. 1909.

976,932, Patented- Nov. 29, 1910.

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CAR CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-7,1909.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

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CAR CONSTRUCTION.

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Original application filed. October 24, 1907, Serial No. 388,961.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnnonnio W. C. Sornvrnwmn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Car Construction, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

The present invention relates to the construction of a car or transporting device adapted to have heavy material loaded on and unloaded from it, and the construction disclosed was primarily devised for use in handling hot coke which is discharged from coke oven retorts directly onto the car and is quenched thereon, and is then dumped from the car into railway cars for transportation or into storage receivers.

The object of the present invention is to provide a car construction which is simple, strong and durable, and which can be readily manipulated to unload the coke deposited in it, and in which the platform receiving the coke is so formed that when portions of it are injured, as may happen from time to time, the injured portions may be readily replaced.

The various features of novelty which characterize my invention are pointed out with particularity in the claim annexed to and forming a part of this specification. For a better understanding of the invention, however, and the advantages possessed by it, reference may be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter, in which I have illustrated one of the forms in which the invention may be embodied.

Of the drawings: Figure 1 is an elevation showing the car and illustrating the manner in which it is manipulated to unload it. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of a portion of the car and of a portion of a coke oven structure in unloading which the car is employed, the section of the car being taken on the line 22 of Fig. 8. Fig. 8 is a diagrammatic side elevation of the entire car. Fig. 4 shows a plan, and Fig. 5 a side elevation, of the bars or platform units of which the platform or bed is composed. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one portion, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the remaining portion, of the hinge connection between the car platform and the running gear of the car; and Fig. 8

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratented Nov. 259, i910.

Dividec'i and this application filed January Serial No. 471,046.

is a sectional elevationtaken transversely to F ig. 2 on the line 8-8.

Tn the drawings, 1'; represents the masonry body of a coke oven structure, B the framework understructure of the coke oven, and C track rails running below the masonry portion of the cone oven structure and trans versely to the direction in which the rctorts A formed therein are horizontally elon gated, the rails C being supported on the under-structure B. The car receiving the coke discharged from the retorts has wheels E running on the rails C and comprises an underfra'ne E and a platform or body portion G. in the form shown, the wheels 11 are driven through gearing E by cross shafts E which are driven in turn from the shaft E of the motor E mounted beneath the car, E representing the housing inclosing the gearing connecting the shafts E and E The platform G is hinge connected to the underframe E at both side edges to tilt relative thereto about one or the other of two axes located one above each rail C. The hinge connections may be formed by bearings E (see Fig. 7) supported on the underframe E at its opposite side edges. Each of the bearings E is provided with a pintle E, the pintles of the various bearings at each side of the underframe E being in alinement. Cooperating with each bearing member E is an open ended bearing member G (see Fig. 6) secured to the underside of the platform G. Ears G are provided at the opposite side edges of the platform G, those at one edge or the other being engaged by suitable hoisting mechanism located at the place of discharge to tilt the platform G about the pintles E at the opposite edge of the platform when it is desired to discharge the coke into the coke receiving car or other receptacle at one side or the other of the track rails H as shown in Fig. 1.

The platfom G is provided with Lbeams G running parallel to the track rails 0, upon which are removably placed the cast iron plates or bars G each provided with the ears G apertured or grooved to receive the upper flanged edges of a pair of beams G as shown clearly in Figs. 4, 5 and 8. At each end of the platform G is located an inclined and preferably removable end portion G, which comprises inclined beams G sup ported at their outer ends on saddle members G resting on the transverse l-beains G and having their inner ends directly supported by the body of the platform Um Un the rails or beams G are secured platform bars G like those secured on the beams G. The outer ends of the beams G are faced by end members v With the construction shown, it will be observed that a broken or injured platform bar 3* may be readily removed by sliding out the other bars G at one side of it which engage the same pair of beams G or G Preferably, to facilitate the removal of the bars G the end portions G are secured to the body portion of the platform by readily detachable connections, not shown. The carriage under-frame E may be protected from water employed in quenching by a floor or covering (not shown) between the platform It) and the bars G if thought necessary.

For the particular use illustrated, the hoisting mechanism M is provided for dropping the lower doors L of each coke oven retort A to bring the bottom edge of the charge of coke to the level of the upper edge of the end portion G when the retort is to be discharged. The coke is then gradually discharged onto the platform G as the car is moved in the direction of the arrow erases applied to N represents a cover or shield member employed to protect the inside of the colre oven structure from the heat of the coke discharged onto the platform G. No claim is made herein, however, to a coke oven receiver or car with inclined ends, or to the cover N, or to hoisting mechanism M, as these features of construction form a part of the subject matter claimed in my co-pending application Serial No. 398,901, filed October Q lth, 1907, of which the present application is a division.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Iatent is:

receiver for hot coke discharged from coke oven retorts, comprising a carriage body having parallel platform beams pro vided with lateral flanges and platform plates provided on their under side with apertures or grooves shaped to receive the lateral flanges on said beams, whereby the flanges and beams are removably but posh tively secured together.

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